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The Bellarmine Forum Podcast is Catholic commentary on anything from history, philosophy, and current events. Best viewed as an after-dinner chat.
Explore the fascinating world of Catholic faith and history in our latest podcast episode. From the creation of the Pious Association in Japan, the introduction of communion in the hand, to the intriguing messages from Our Lady of Akita, we delve into the heart of the Catholic Church. Uncover surprising revelations about the Church's infiltration and the need for reform. Tune in for a divine mix of faith, hope, and a dash of mystery. It's more than a podcast, it's a faith journey!
ews this week that Tucchio Kissio, the Prefect for some new curial office erstwhile known as Doctrine and Faith, you know, the guy that wrote the “Theology of Kissing” and is trying to emulate the “porno theologians” of the 70s, as Fr. Cornelio Fabrio called them… So Smoochio has exercised the power given him by Francis to haul Vigano into court.
General news report at LifeSite.
Last June, Pope Francis went so far as to praise Luther — once deemed a heretic by the Catholic Church — as a great reformer.
On his flight back to Rome from Armenia, the pope told reporters: "The church was not a role model, there was corruption, there was worldliness, there was greed, and lust for power. He protested against this. And he was an intelligent man."
Oct 16, 2016 NPR report on Pope Francis praising Martin Luther.How can Pope Francis now prosecute Vigano for doing what he praised Luther for?
Listen in and we discuss the Twinkie Defense, nonfeasance in other matters, and how this will all play out in the most extraordinary judicial action that will ever be...
Raw Audio of the 1977 Thirteenth National Wanderer Forum - Fr. Vincent Micelli SJ delivers this deadly analysis of the modernist attack on the priesthood.
Discover the dangers of modernism and its subversion of the priesthood in this thought-provoking sermon by Father Vincent Micelli, S.J. delivered on the Feast of the Sacred Heart at the 1977 Thirteenth Annual National Wanderer Forum.
Learn how modernism attacks the high priesthood of Jesus Christ and undermines the teachings of the Catholic Church. Gain insights into the false concepts of moral permissiveness, uncritical dialogue, and irrational ecumenism that are plaguing the Church today. Find out why it is crucial to stay loyal to the teachings of the Magisterium and the chair of Peter. Click here to read more and deepen your understanding of this pressing issue.
According to Father Micelli, modernism dissolves the truth of the faith by proposing profane novelties under the guise of Catholic words. It denies the divinity of Christ and relativizes all truth. #Modernism #CatholicFaith #DivinityofChrist
If you've ever wondered why the Miracle of the Sun was what Our Lady chose for the finale to Fatima, then this podcast is for you -- from the Errors of Russia and the symbols of the enemies of God, she was sending a message, Old Testament style. Even down to the Egyptian and like Moses battling Pharaoh's priests -- the Miracle of the Sun is rich with symbolism.
It is the 90s all over again - but despite the smoke of prophecy-mania afflicting us today, there are some curious prophecies from Anne Catherine Emmerich and commentary by Yves DuPont, as well as some quotes from Masonic sources in 1955 conspire to make strange explanations of the Lutheran Synodality we see making democratic "collegiality" in the Vatican today. But why is the Synod silent on things Catholics are concerned about?
see quotes and show notes on the Bellarmine Forum website
Last episode, we discussed game theory but never got to the point of it. Now, we discuss that the Vatican had hired McKinsey & Co to "modernize communications". McKinsey uses game theory to help their clients find the best path to navigate a market and uses consensus management to help companies move from point A to point B through competition and diverse market forces, especially to overcome reasonable criticism. Well, that's what we see happening in the Synod. We discuss the USCCB Synod Synthesis and see that we really are being gamed!
Let's sit down and chat about this mess today, and how we've come to the end of the modernist climb and modernist normalization of the Church. The "listening church" of synodality appears to be nothing more than an enactment of Richard McBrien's Catholicism. How the shock cycle of media today seems to feed the balkanization of Catholics, the use of "defending the pope" as brown shirts, the calumnies used to marginalize Catholics that just want to be left alone, the weaponized petitions, and how it all started. Voices of the battles of the 80's had better analysis, but today's voices seem to miss a lot. Much of the harshest things we hear about today were done already by American Bishops decades ago, back then there was recourse to Rome... but what's different today is Rome isn't listening. Our Lady told us at Akita...
Pope Francis is reported to have said that we should not make a battlefield of the liturgy. Because he complains of people hanging on to outdated things and old ideas, it is like he is saying that people who want a united and sacred liturgy disrupt the purpose of liturgy... who are the real combatants? why is this deja vu? and what did Father Hardon say we can do about it?
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:50 - Synodality Participation and Crucify Him! 00:01:20 - Mission of the Church is Vertical to God, not horizontal 00:02:35 - Speech Expectations of the Scribes and Pharisees in the Passion Gospels 00:03:29 - The False Image of Jesus presented then and today 00:04:37 - Nicodemus had to watch his mouth and be secret 00:05:20 - Do you think priests are free to speak their minds today? 00:07:28 - Priests Removed for Speaking their mind (think perverting our nation) 00:08:10 - Nicodemus is our guy today - Good priests have to be like him or face the Stasi or Gulags 00:09:55 - Scribes and Pharisees (full of compromises): Jesus hated it then as He does today 00:11:07 - Judas Became the Wicked Betrayer By Compromise 00:12:34 - Compromise with the World, Get the Temple Destroyed 00:13:53 - Pressure from the Compromised Clergy Made people shout Crucify Him! (distorted synodality) 00:14:47 - The people shout at Vigano (we found him perverting our nation) 00:18:01 - Jesus replaced the Compromised Clergy Entirely 00:19:07 - Podesta, Soros, Catholic Springtime SWIFT payment used to remove Benedict 00:21:57 - Wait for Benedict to Die or Conclave now? Lightning Strike was good or bad portent? 00:23:15 - The Mix in the Church Includes Agents of Satan? 00:24:35 - The Current Situation and the Scenes of the Third Secret of Fatima 00:25:48 - Illusory reflection in the mirror - two popes? 00:27:21 - Soldiers in the Church - disappearing priests and religious 00:30:43 - we had the impression and Vigano's legitimate questions 00:31:52 - Something's not right! There's your sign: lightning stirking and the roof collapsing 00:32:53 - Our Lady's Remedy and Bishop Schneider 00:34:15 - The Laiety Are Joining in today (just like Holy Week) 00:34:59 - Asking Questions Should Always Be Encouraged (not Crucified) 00:35:34 - The Catholic Nomenklatura, Zampolit -- Scribes and Pharisees no doubt 00:36:27 - Freedoms in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, Just like in the Church Today 00:40:06 - Dealing with Problem People - the Apparatchiks are watching for deviations from the Party Line 00:42:34 - The Party Line is the unspoken rules - sort of like the Invisible/Hidden Black Sun 00:44:56 - The two ways out of this mess 00:46:00 - Akita's warning against Soviet Kompromat in today's clergy 00:48:08 - Our Lady's Suffering at Holy Week is Like Today 00:50:32 - Outro
This past Friday, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Pope Francis performed a Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. While this is a laudable act, is it what Our Lady Asks of us today? Looking at the second secret of Fatima itself, actual history, and the message of Akita, it appears that we are not doing what she wants... and we are paying for it.
Cincinnati’s past ignoring heterodoxy and heresy have caught up to it as Archbishop Schnurr rolls out a PR consultant led “Beacons of Light” crisis communications program designed to steer public opinion, but there is a much better (and far cheaper) way he could be fixing the problem instead of papering it over.
Continuing the discussion on informed consent, Catholic morality, and medical "mandates" in the midst of media mayhem sowing fear and misinformation.
Part 2 of the discussion on Catholic moral teaching on medical treatments, your strict duty to avoid harmful/deadly activity, and Title VII protections of your religious beliefs. How to express your religious exemption.
Bishops mandating their employees to undergo health procedures that have a risk of death are not following the USCCB directives on health care. They cannot replace the voluntary informed consent of the patient. Worse, they may be violating Catholic social teaching with regards to the duty of an employer to provide for the safety of their employees.
Learn about what Mary's Assumption can tell you about your own assumption some day, the need to do penance and keep your body as God wants, following her example. It can even influence your thinking about COVID and whether anyone should be "Forced" to charity,
We'll explore the uncanny use of the word "unity" in the motu proprio, the letter, Cardinal Cupich's statement on the Motu Proprio, and how he used in 2002 when he padlocked the Latin Mass parish out of their church for Easter Triduum, "as an invitation to be in unity with him."
news regarding the motu proprio issued by Pope Francis on the feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
At this last USCCB meeting, the Spring 2021 meeting, setting the agenda resulted in a parliamentary question when a retired Bishop wished to add something to the agenda. The parliamentarian is Archbishop Schnurr, the Archbishop of Cincinnati.
It was the spring meeting of the NCCB/USCCB in 1977 where the agenda discussion resulted in a parliamentary trick that removed a threshhold question from the motion to seek an indult for communion in the hand ... it happened at the hands of the then Archbishop of Cincinnati, Bernadin.
Comments from bishops and Cardinals in 1977 said that the fraud employed to ram the Communion in the hand vote was a disobedience of bishops and opened an era of "selective discipline."
Today, the USCCB is discussing what to do about politician that are selectively obedient to Catholicism yet go to Holy Communion as if they were in full communion.
The problem began in 1977 and today's issue is precisely what those Cardinals and Bishops warned of. The USCCB cannot fix the problem today without acknowledging the poison in the well caused by Bernadin's fraud!
You will be surprised at this one thing that happened at the USCCB meeting -- and we have Archbishop Sample to thank for it.
Is this what Bishops are supposed to be doing?
Today's readings from Mass make a strong point that Modernists can't fathom -- God is real and even nature is obedient to Him!
Name one hymn produced by AmChurch that has been worth listening to, let alone merited universal acclaim.
GIA, who took way too long to remove Haas works, removes a composer for saying "arson is bad" - contrary to GIA's political support of protestors.
PROMISE FOR NEXT EPISODE: the one thing that happened at the USCCB meeting that was a fulfillment of my prophecy about the Communion in the Hand vote.
On June 13, at Fatima, in 1917, Our Lady spoke to the children and introduced the Fatima Prayer said after each mystery of the Rosary.
She also told Sr. Lucy that she would spread devotion to her Immaculate Heart (yesterday's feast on the new calendar).
We take a stroll through history to see that Moscow was viewed to be the third Rome (after the collapse of Byzantium), that they crushed the Rosicrucian Napoleon through the Triumph of the Cross, and that they relied on Our Lady for help.
Rich in historical drama, the Tsar commissioned the building of the Christ Our Saviour Cathedral in Moscow 139 years after the revelation of the Sacred Heart in France.
France fell to the enemies of God because the King did not consecrate France to Him.
Russia crushed the anti-christ Napoleon by placing all of Russia and Moscow into the hands of Our Lord and the Blessed Mother's help...
To make it even richer in detail, Fatima occurred while the 68th Convocation of the Rose and Cross (Rosicrucians) consecrated a grove in Beverly Hall, Pennsylvania . Among other things, they claim that they wish to reunite America with the Yucatan peninsula (where Aztec sacrifices occurred).
You won't see Russia and Fatima the same ...
The Sacred Heart is The Blessed Sacrament
Why Modernists Cannot perceive the Real Presence
The two weapons Our Lady says are left include the sacred heart
Why does the USCCB think that they need a statement on Holy Communion?
The insanity of modernism can't process reality
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/easter-sunday/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/holy-saturday/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/good-friday/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/visits-to-the-sepulchre/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/visits-to-the-sepulchre/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/maundy-thursday/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/wednesday-in-holy-week/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/tuesday-in-holy-week/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/monday-in-holy-week/
Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.
See the text here: https://bellarmineforum.org/devotional/holy-week/palm-sunday/
Women Priests,
Inclusive Language was from the US Bishops (ICEL)
Selecting Pronouns
Nat. Cath Reporter is the epitome of all insanity
Fordham University advertising to women priests
announcements
China wants to stop the destruction of their young boys
China appears to have removed the role of the Pope in selected bishops for China
What stands out in your mind from 2020? Did you find it "baffling and reprehensible"?
The chickens have come home to roost for the US Catholic Church. We've jumped the shark and the bus to fantasyland has run off the cliff. Reality and the fantasy of American Catholicism have finally diverged so far that no reasonable mind can hold it.
It all seems to be based on the most fraudulent vote, ever.
Judas was a Marxist, just like those today.
It's all plain to see now, though -- the wheat and the chaff are grown and ready to be plucked. Lord, have mercy on us!
When Our Lord was in the garden, He experienced what we call the agony. It was the agony in the Garden. In the last blog post on Bellarmine Forum, we learn that a chief point of St. Raphael’s speech is to tell us: “God tries those who love Him.” His Son Jesus was no exception. Jesus was tried in the Garden and He prayed. He sweat blood. Here is Jesus, the God-Man. He’s God! And yet He needed help. Why do I say that? The Gospels tell us that an angel came to strengthen Him.
If Jesus needed His angel, who are you?
If you aren’t using and befriending the angel God gave to you, you’re going to fail.
October 2 — Feast of the Guardian angels. Also, First Friday! Last year we introduced a prayer that many listeners had never heard, but they memorized it, learned it, and pray it now. Last year, we focused on the tenderness and the principal ways your angel helps you.
Holy angel, guardian mine, Given me by love divine; Day and night watch over me, From harm, from sin, let me be free. By a pious life I fain Would eternal joys attain. Amen
If you haven’t heard that episode, visit the blog post for this episode and click this link and go listen — you’ll want to be friends with your angel.
This year, I want to bring some heat — heat given to us by Mother Church. And I will bring you a new prayer.
In the fourth century – St. Hilary – doctor of the Church mind you, tells us:
“In the warfare we carry on we remain strong against the evil powers through the angels who are our helpers”
Helpers — that quote is nice, but it doesn’t explain how you will fail if you ignore your angel. St. Hilary makes it clearer here:
“There are angels of little children who look upon the face of God every day. These spirits have been sent to aid the human race. Our weakness is such that, if the guardian angels had not been given to us, we would not be able to resist the many and powerful attacks of the evil spirits. “
Without our guardian angel, we would not be able to resist… the many and powerful attacks of the evil spirits. In other words, without our angel, we will fail.
He expands this teaching even further!
That is why we need a higher nature (to protect us). We know this from the words with which the Lord strengthened Moses trembling in his fear, “My angel will go before you.” That is why God has taken out these spirits from among His treasures and has given through them the help we need in our human weakness. By this divine assistance we are able to resist the powers of this world of darkness to obtain the heritage of heaven!
St. Hillary If you want to get to Heaven, you need your angel! Without your angel, you will fail to get to Heaven!
Make you a little afraid yet? I’ve dipped into the old liturgies — way back in Mother Church’s rich tradition and found some gems for you. Let’s look at the prayer to the Guardian Angel popularized in monasteries during the so called “dark ages”. This prayer is essentially the same as the Eastern Churches use today and it is part of a Service that includes the Akathist prayer to the Mother of God.
If you want to get to Heaven, you need your angel! Without your angel, you will fail to get to Heaven! This prayer makes that very clear!
Holy Angel of the Lord, my Guardian, pray to God for me.
Deliver me from every misfortune and save me from sorrow, I pray, O holy Angel, given to me as my good guardian by God.
Holy Angel of the Lord, my Guardian, pray to God for me.
Enlighten my mind, O good one, and illumine me, I pray thee, O holy Angel, and teach me to think always profitably.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
Calm my heart from present disturbance, and strengthen me to be vigilant in good, O my guardian, and guide me miraculously in quietness of life.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Without your angel, you will fail. Talk to your angel. Thank God for you guardian angel. Do it now — tell him you want to be friends!
From the love of my soul I cry to thee, O guardian of my soul, my most holy Angel! Protect and guard me always from the hunting of the evil one, and guide me to the heavenly life, teaching and enlightening and strengthening me.
Finally, this prayer says it all:
O Holy Angel of Christ, I fall down and pray to thee, my holy Guardian, given me from holy Baptism for the protection of my sinful body and soul. By my laziness and bad habits, I have angered thy most pure light, and have driven thee away from me by all my shameful deeds, lies, slander, envy, condemnation, scorn, disobedience, hatred of brother, grudges, avarice, adultery, anger, meanness, greed, gluttony, drunkenness, loquacity, negative and evil thoughts, proud ways, having self-will in all the desires of the flesh. O my evil will, which even the dumb animals do not follow! How canst thou look at me or approach me! With what eyes, O Angel of Christ, wilt thou look at me so badly snared in vile deeds? How can I ask forgiveness for my bitter, evil and wicked deeds, into which I fall every day and night, and every hour? But falling down, I pray to thee, O my holy Guardian: pity me, thy sinful and unworthy servant (Name) . Be my helper and protector against my wicked enemy, by thy holy prayers, and make me a partaker of the Kingdom of God with all the Saints, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
When St. Peter was imprisoned, it was his angel that came and released him. When Moses was to go, Our Lord told him, “I will send my angel before thee.” When Our Lord agonized in the Garden, His angel came to strengthen Him and comfort him.
Your angel is a gift from God to you. Without your angel, you will fail. Fr. Hardon taught that we are to expect miracles, and our guardian angel can work them. St. Peter’s escape from prison is just one of millions of examples. Says Fr. Hardon, “The more devoted we are to them and the more fervently we invoke their aid, the more of God’s blessings they will obtain for us who are still living in the shadows of faith.”
Finally – we head into the fall and the time of year when Mother Church reminds us of the four last things. We cannot forget death and judgment. Our Guardian angel is there to help us and will be with us at final judgement. The Canon to the Guardian Angels include a plea for his help then:
O gracious Angel, sent by God, strengthen the life of thy servant and forsake me not unto the ages. […] Be my veil and visor in the Judgment Day of all men, when all deeds, good and evil, will be tried by fire.
You angel will be with you until the last. The last trial of all is final judgment. Without your angel, you will fail.
Pray and talk to your angel! Be his friend, and he will be yours! I promise! Not just promise! I guarantee it!
Today, September 29th, is the Feast of the Archangels, and in particular, the feast of St. Michael the Archangel.
The Roman Breviary describes him thus:
O Jesu! Life-spring of the soul!
The Father’s power and glory bright!
Thee with the angels we extol;
From Thee they draw their life and light.
Thy thousand hosts are spread
Embattled over the azure sky;
But Michael bears Thy standard dread,
And lift the mighty cross on high!
- Roman Breviary, Feast (Sep. 29), hymn Te splendor et virtus Patris at vespers. (attr. to Bl. Rabanus Maurus 9th century)
St. Michael, you see, was charged with the task of leading the heavenly army of angels, and the first task was to evict Satan and the other evil angels to hell. So much for Hell being empty.
It’s tragic today that many people have this soft, puny, chubby toddler image of angels. pffft.
When Our Lord was before Pilate, Jesus referred to the heavenly host as an army. He told Pilate that had the Father not given Him up to Pilate, then His subjects would be there fighting to free Our Lord.
Recently, I made a comment on this in the “Lest the angels take stock.” It seems times are changing, and we may be seeing more direct intervention of the Heavenly Army.
In the last episode, I mentioned that the wound on the right hand of Our Lady’s statue in Akita would stop bleeding on September 29th. 56 years years earlier, the Children at Fatima would see that same right hand of Our Lady stop the fiery flames issuing forth from St. Michael’s sword.
Just a year before the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, either in late September, or mid October — Lucia was never sure because she did not write the date down, St. Michael came to the children and taught them about the Blessed Sacrament. 1916.
Lucia described it like this:
After we had repeated this prayer I don't know how many time we saw the shining over us a strange light. We lifted our heads to see what was happening. the Angel was holding in his left hand a chalice and over it, in the air, was a host from which drops of blood fell into the chalice. The Angel leaves the chalice in the air, kneels near us and tells us to repeat three times:
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly, and I offer You the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. And by the infinite merits of His most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.
After that he rose, took again in his hand the chalice and the host. The host he gave to me and the contents of the chalice he gave to Jacinta and Francisco, saying at the same time,
| Eat and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ terribly outraged by the ingratitude of men. Offer reparation for their sakes and console God.
Once more he bowed to the ground repeating with us the same prayer thrice:
Most Holy Trinity,…
and disappeared. Overwhelmed by the supernatural atmosphere that involved us, we imitated the Angel in everything, kneeling prostrate as he did and repeating the prayers he said.
Did you catch something? Last episode, we discussed our Lady;’s hand bleeding … The children saw the precious blood dripping from the Host in St. Michael’s hand. All of it happening this time of year, around his feast.
More curious though, on October 13th. There’s that data again, 33 years before the Miracle of the Son… Pope Leo XIII was finishing Mass.
Wait — do you remember last week’s episode when we discussoed the events at Akita? During Mass.
The date was October 13th, 1884. Witnesses described the Pope Leo stopped in front of the altar. The described his face as showing horror and wonder at the same time. They did not know what happened but the Pope immediately ran to his study and wrote something down. After writing the St. Michael Prayer, he gave the prayer to his secretary and ordered him to have copies of it made and send it to all the bishops of the world ordering them to say the prayer after every Mass.
Pope Leo would describe the vision. He said he had seen a chilling vision of “legions of demons” attacking the Church. So fierce was the attack that they almost destroyed it. Then he saw St Michael intervening decisively to defend the Church – not immediately, but much later, and only after the faithful had multiplied their fervent prayers to the Archangel.
The children saw St. Michael, and they saw Our Lady halt the fire from Heaven so that we could pray and offer reparation.
St. Michael is not a chubby faced toddler. He’s powerful! Fr. Hardon would say that at a minimum we should invoke his protection twice daily, morning and night.
Let’s pray Leo XIII’s prayer together:
Saint Michael the archangel, defend us in battle,
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O prince of the Heavenly hosts!: by the power of God cast into Hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
Communion in the Hand? Perfectly Legal? Not an outrage to Our Lady?
Take a trip to events 47 years ago...
And then compare it to seeing some nuns in habit at Mass go to the "Communion in the Hand" line, instead of the Communion on the tongue line.
Think Coronavirus is an excuse?
This episode will change your mind, or at least make you think more about it.
An Empty Hell Means there is No Triumph of the Cross
What people say and what they really believe are often different. There was the famous English free-thinker, Hobbes. He used to stridently assert his whole life that there was neither God nor angel, still less was there a devil or hell. Despite all his strident insistence, however, he had the greatest dread of evil spirits; even in his old age he was afraid of sleeping alone in a room. What he openly denied, he secretly believed.
So it is with Hell. Some, starting with people interpreting Hans Urs von Balthasar, began to comment that we can hope Hell will be empty. Many people run from that supposition and think Hell will be empty. That thinking is not too far from thinking there is no Hell.
We know better.
The index of the Writings of St. Maximillian Kolbe have very few mentions of hell, however, he said that the Buddhists taught that there is a heaven and hell, but their teachers do not believe it.
St. Kolbe reported in his letter that he told the teachers who said this that they were deceiving people to teach in something they don’t believe in.
The buddhists replied, “nothing can be done about that.”
I agree with Kolbe: “It is not right to teach about things that are untrue. If Heaven and Hell do not exist, everyone should know the truth. But if they do exist, then they must apply to everyone, because before God all men are equal..”
Similarly, Fr. McBrien, the late theologian priest of Notre Dame University and author of the book Catholicism, wrote in that title that the Church never taught anyone went to Hell. Countless people, festered by McBrien’s short talk ran with the notion that Hell is but a scare tactic, and no one goes there.
We should have no sympathy for these liars who would diminish the reality of Hell. The possibility of death. Our Lady warned us at Fatima that hell was real and showed the little children the vision of people tormented there.
The saints have constantly warned us. Indeed, if you have been in a state of mortal sin before, you know… hell is real because you began to experience it here.
What good is it to prevaricate on this?
Fr. Hardon would reply to these inane quips, with “If Hell is empty after all these years, then we must ask what crime does it take to go there?”
“No Catholic theologian in the United States has made a larger contribution to the reception of Vatican II than Richard McBrien did,” the Rev. Charles E. Curran, a professor of human values at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Curran… who was a Catholic priest and was active on the board of the National Catholic Reporter would of course praise the likes of such stench.
But let’s get deeper here — let’s assume that the Hell is just a “scare tactic” for a moment.. Maybe these people are right, right?
Maybe those people who criticized St. Alphonsus Ligouri’s terrifying sermons on sin and punishment were right — scare tactics not needed and he was being “Dramatic”….
Maybe Bishop Barron’s response that when Our Lady showed the vision of Hell to the little children at Fatima, that it was just a private revelation. Meaning, I suppose in my opinion on reading that response back then, was that Our Lady’s revelation was not a definitive teaching. Indeed, people interpreting his response took it to mean that the vision of Hell with people in it was not authoritative. (Refer back to the last episode on the angels... I don’t want the bloody nose for that implication... fools rush in)
Of course there are people in Hell.
Our Lady of Fatima was right, however, and I can prove to you why.
She told us to pray and repent, and do penance.
Today is the feast of the Triumph of the Cross. September 14.
It celebrates the day St. Helen’s quest to find and recover the true cross. The year was 326. The temple to Jupiter in Palestine was demolished. Three crosses and the titulus (“I.N.R.I.) were found. The problem was which was the true cross? A woman with chronic illness touched each. She was healed upon touching the third. A funeral passing by, they touched the cross to the deceased. He rose from the dead.
The Birth of Jesus, Cross, His death and His Resurrection are real…
But ask yourself… if there was no Hell, why would Jesus do that? Why suffer the Cross?
St. Robert Bellarmine was apt to say that the trouble with Calvin is that he could not admit how much God loves each of us.
The trouble with these moderns and weak teachers is that they love none of us… Jesus Christ endured the Cross to rescue you, me, and everyone from Hell… It’s real, and people can go there.
Glory to His Cross and Resurrection! Glory to Jesus Christ, Our Savior!
Now, if there is some “hope that hell would be empty”, it was expressed by John the Baptist, right? John the Baptist proclaimed the coming of the redeemer, the savior. He told us “repent, and make straight the path” and be baptized.
Why did he do that is hell was just a scare tactic?
Why did Jesus suffer death if Hell is empty?
And why would Our Lady chose to scare such little children if it were not true that people go to Hell?
The vision of Hell given by Our Lady to the children at Fatima was real — she loves us and wants us to avail ourselves of salvation. The salvation merited by Her Son.
What von Balthasar was trying to say is that the Crucifixion was adequate to expiate all sin, everywhere — if people availed themselves of salvation, repent, and turn to Our Lord, they can be saved — every one of them.
But it takes conversion, and not everyone will do that.
Don’t be tempted to think Hell is empty. And if you want to hope in an empty hell, then do as John the Baptist did and speak of repentance, even to Herod.
Here is a clip of Fr. Micelli describing private revelation and what we must believe of it:
-Fr. Micelli Clip -
I love what he says about the “private revelation”
But let’s tackle this question directly: is Hell empty, and does the Church say so?
No, the Church teaches there is a Hell, it is eternal, and we know that the devil, and many angels who followed the devil are in Hell.
So, it’s not empty. But let’s take this one step further. Fr. Hardon commented frequently on the “empty hell” hope advanced around.
- Fr. Hardon Clip -
On the Feast of the Assumption (Dormition)...
Mary leads the way to the promises of her son, Jesus. She was also taken body and soul to Heaven by Jesus after she fell asleep.
Angels protect things precious to Our Lord. The Hagia Sophia was closed this week after attempts to turn it into a militant islamic outpost...
Our Lord does not always think it is time for the sword, but when it is, His angels are fast to use it. The events at the Hagia Sophia seem to indicate time is up. Buckle up.
___ next episode: what does this all mean for prelates who ignore and dissuade the faithful from heeding her warnings at Fatima, especially that Hell is real?
Join in to a discussion where we talk about the refined front of Gramsci's Marxist transformation of the Church into a liberator of the poor and social action committee ready to help liberate the oppressed everywhere.
Was the apostasy of the 60s, now refined into a less awkward and more smooth scholarly sounding charade of charity, nothing more than a clever way to move people away from God?
Why don't we send troublemakers (like poor Fr. Rothrock) to Siberia anymore? What has replaced the disappearing of dissenters?
Judas balked at the Worship of Our Lord, and countered that instead of giving to God, it could have been given to the poor. Fr. Hardon said one of the major reasons the devil is so strong today is Judases in the Church.
We review some of Frank Morriss's excellent points about the modernist activists in the Church (Fr. McBrien) and how Antonio Gramsci's method of transforming the Church into a Marxist machine (replacing worship of God with business of liberation).
We cheer the removal of the hymns by one of the several awful hymnists of the modern American lay-led "experience" liturgy... David Haas... as well as no sign of peace... let's make that prohibition permanent.
Finally, if you want to know how the Church SHOULD BE ANSWERING THE OPPRESSION AND SYSTEMATIC EVILS TODAY, listen in!
More description pending. For now, this has a clip of Fr. Miceli explaining Fatima in 1985 — especially the part on private revelation is gold.
Silence is Violence, they tell us… does that mean bishops who hardly ever mention the Most Holy Name of Jesus (Whom they represent) are being violent to Him?
Does Community Organizing = Liberation Theology?
Maybe they just wanted a different name for it here in the US, right?
Akita was like Fatima — Find out what Fr. Vincent Miceli has to say these types of revelations mean for us ordinary Catholics.
Think you can ignore Fatima and Akita? Maybe — but be careful what you say about them (Fr. Miceli makes this surprising warning).
Of all the funny things, it occurred to me that Judas (the community orgnizer among the Apostles) was also the treasurer. Fitting. Especially given the way CCHD gets the cash, right?
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all time was the brutal Passion of Our Lord. Yet, in the wake of that event, how did the Apostles react? Did they take up the standard of the zealots, and be glad that Barrabas was freed so they might teach the Romans a thing or two about anti-Judeaism?
Two Standards: Utopia (Satan’s Empty Promise) or Heaven (God’s Guarantee) In the face of riots, we see two standards being promulgated by Bishops: some promise us utopia — the secular heaven of Satan’s marxist global “paradise”. Others, proclaim that Heaven has none of this tragedy and we want to get there so we must repent, pray, and follow Our Lord.
The Marxist Choice: Virtue Signal Because you are Guilty Why did Cupich say in his statement this week that “what did we expect”? Why did one of his office publish a graphic description of “Covert white supremacy” that basically, in my opinion, indicts all of us as racists?
Marxist demoralization sought to convince the common man that he was guilty and hence, “demoralize” him. If we are saddled with a presumption of guilt, is this not demoralization?
Can we have Utopia or is it an empty promise of Satan? If it is, do we not reject it?
Compromise Not with the World Our Lady told us at Akita that there would be thos in the Church who make compromises. Whith whom did they compromise? Can it be anyone other than the devil, i.e. the spiritus mundi? (See this discussion on Detente with the Devil and Stagnation of the Church for more)
Did the Libveration Theologians (who are those who teach secular humanism thus replacing Our Lord with the empty promises of Satan — an anti-Church, the errors of Russia) go away? Or are they active today with new tactics?
Fr. Miceli Describes the Liberation Theologians (Marxist Utopian Bishops) Listen to a clip of Fr. Vincent Miceli describe Liberation Theologians in the Church and the errant bishops who follow it from 1985. Compare to today..
Finally, we are told today that nature is getting back at us for falling to contribute to a green fund. As Wilton Gregory complains that President Trump used a Church for politics, what does it mean to have money changers in the Vatican? What did Our Lord do to them?
President Trump tried to call people to God. St. John Chrysostom solved the riots of Antioch the same way — with the Sermons on the Statues. Calling people to repentance and reminding them that they want a plce in Heaven — the real utopia.
At the passion, nature did hide in shame — the Gospels tell us that at Our Lord’s death, the sun refused to shine and the earth shook ashamed of the tragedy that Jesus had been crucified at the hands of men.
Vigano wrote to President Trump and told him that there is a “Deep Church” operating within that infiltrated the Church the same way the Deep State Marcists infiltrated our government.
Repent and Pray for the Halt of the Marxist March Clearly, we don’t need to battle for the empty promise of utopia. Rather, those of us who follow the Standard of Christ need to do as the Blessed Mother told us: repent, pray, say our Rosary daily, and she’ll take care of the rest.
May she take care of these who have been swindled by the empty promises of Satan as well…
Our Lady of Akita, pray for us!
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 31st Day — Mary’s Coronation as Queen of Heaven.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 30th Day — Mary’s Assumption into Heaven.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 29th Day — Mary’s Death.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 28th Day — Mary the Mother of the Infant Church.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 27th Day — Jesus appears to Mary after the Resurrection.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 26th Day — Mary sees Jesus laid in the Sepulcher.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This is a continuation of yesterday’s Part 1, BFP: The Cold War Against Priests Memorial, Part 1 Pilarczyk: Shepherd or Wolf?
This is the conclusion of the special presentation of a Catholic News Wire story from 1990, titled Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczky: Shepherd or Wolf?
It details the story of how, in 1990, Archbiship Daniel Pilarczyk removed Fr. Griese, a pastor of a devout orthodox, and thriving latin Mass church in downtown Dayton Ohio…
I will let you decide for yourself if this story is more common than we think and whether this kind of story shapes and affects our priests today. Let’s remember Fr. Griese and all those priests like him.
Recently, we’ve seen the stories of Fr. Phillips at St. John Cantius, or the removal of Fr. Kalchilk in Chicago, but I think people don’t realize that this removal of orthodox priests, or priests who are too outspoken has been goig on for a long time.
Enter a flashback special presentation of a Catholic News Wire story from 1990, titled Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczky: Shepherd or Wolf?
On this memorial day, in addition to remembering the soldiers who laid down their lives for love of us, let us also call to mind those priests who have been erased from memory of AmChurch through specious dismissals and events designed to impugn them with ignominy inferred by omissions in the public story.
I present this story to you in two parts. This is part 1. Part 2 will post tomorrow. Father Griese did not deserve what he got from Archbishop Pilarczyk… but listen for yourself and see if you see a pattern in how this was done.
Our Lady, help of Christians, pray for us!
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 25th Day — Jesus is placed in His Mother’s arms.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 24th Day — Mary at the foot of the Cross.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 23rd Day — Mary meets Jesus carrying the Cross.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 22nd Day — Mary during our Lord’s Public Life.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
43 Days (not 40?) After Easter, Jesus Ascended
Mark-up your bible… Correct the maths… Jesus rose 43 days after Easter. But, when nobody is obliged this year, and since the putative reason that the Bishops conference moved the date of ascension was to encourage attendance, why have Ascension Sunday this year? Shouldn’t it be today?
This is a perennial ax I grind. See just these two (but there’s many many more if you search the site):
Introducing the “De Novo Catholics.” A play on the term Fr. Vincent Miceli S.J. coined of the “new Catholics” — a post-Vatican II phenomenon. When I heard it long ago, and when discussing it with Bill Marra, I thought it referred to progressives only… but as time is moving along, I see better what Dr. Marra was predicting: we’ll see a whole Church full of people who are naive, ignorant of tradition, and self-certain they know it all. We deal with it today across the board, even among those who purport themselves to be good.
Even as I was listening to Fr. Miceli today, I got a message from our esteemed Executive Secretary Cindy who said she was listening to Dr. Carroll (who addressed the Forum conferences in the past).
It’s a developing idea. Inspired mostly by the sudden interest of the Catholic “zeitgeist” today to be interested in Communion in the hand. Where have they been for the past thirty years? Communion in the hand has been a pressing issue for the folks I admired:
- Fr. Hardon S.J.
- Mother Angelica
- Fr. Vincent Miceli S.J.
- Dr. Bill Marra
- and many more…
When I go back and listen to them, they took these issues seriously and with imminent concern. They had a style that was engaging and admirable for its sincerity and richness in that quintessential earthiness of reality.
Contrasting it to the discussion today, and realize that a lot of the zeitgeist today is sanitized and a narrow band of “safe” discussion informed by a naive approach.
developing…
Are you familiar with some of those forgotten (and since then marginalized) characters of Catholicism? who’s your favorite? leave a comment on this page - click here
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 21st Day — Mary at Cana.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 20th Day — The Death of St. Joseph.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 19th Day — Mary’s loss of Jesus for three days.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 18th Day— Mary’s Life at Nazareth.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 17th Day — The Flight into Egypt.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 16th Day — Simeon’s Prophecy to Mary.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 15th Day — Mary’s Purification.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This is a short announcement reminding BFP listeners that we are still here, and that the devotionals have moved to the BF Devotionals channel. Find daily meditations on Mary there and subscribe to the separate channel one the page by clicking this link .
Recently, Cindy mused on the connection between Fatima and the Coronavirus pandemic we find ourselves in. She concludes that it could only be the work of the devil that has kept us out of churches and away from the sacraments.
I made similar connections on my post, An Easter without Mass in Church. There, I mentioned that the situation our bishops are in here, where they are subordinated to the state, is precisely like those in China, put there by the bad deal the Vatican made with the Communist Chinese State.
In the annoucenment I mentioned this past post:
China destroying crosses on Churches.
China has begin removing crosses again as of a few weeks ago.
I also mentioned this past post about the Vatican deal with China.
Finally, I mentioned this post from our social media channels, and the fact that two of the Fatima visionaries died from the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918.
Pray your rosary, and offer up some reparation to Our Lady that she may work some good with it!
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 14th Day — The Nativity.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 12th Day — The Visitation.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 13th Day — Mary’s time of Expectancy.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 11th Day — The Incarnation.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 10th Day — The Annunciation.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 9th Day — The Marriage of Mary.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 8th Day — Mary’s Espousals.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 7th Day — Mary’s Life in the Temple.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 6th Day —The Presentation of Mary in the Temple.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 5th Day — The Birth of Mary.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 4th Day — God’s design in beautifying Mary.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 3d Day — Mary’s earliest Gift.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 2nd Day — Mary’s First Graces.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Maria Magnificata 31 days of meditations on the Blessed Mother Mary appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to text) for meditation titiled 1st Day — Mary’s Immaculate Conception.. The index to the entire series can be found at this page on Bellarmine Forum.
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 46: Easter Eve — The Entombment.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 45: Good Friday — The Descent from the Cross.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 44: Maundy Thursday— Jesus’ Mystical Death in the Blessed Eucharist.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 43: Wednesday in Holy Week — The Death of Jesus.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 42: Tuesday in Holy Week— The Thirst upon the Cross.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 41: Monday in Holy Week — The Dereliction of Jesus on the Cross.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 40: The Sixth Sunday in Lent — Jesus Commends His Disciples to His Holy Mother’s Care.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 39: Saturday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent — The Good Thief.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 38: Friday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent— The Deriding of Jesus.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 37: Thursday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent — Jesus is Nailed to the Cross.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 36: Wednesday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent — Simon of Cyrene.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 35: Tuesday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent — Jesus Meets His Holy Mother.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 34: Monday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent — Via Dolorosa.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 33: The Fifth Sunday in Lent — Jesus Sets Out on the Way to Calvary.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 32: Saturday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent— The Condemnation to Death.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 31: Friday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent— Ecce Homo.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 30: Thursday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent — The Crowning with Thorns.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 29: Wednesday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent — The Scourging.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 28: Tuesday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent — Barabbas or Jesus?)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 27: Monday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent — Jesus Before Herod.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 26: The Fourth Sunday in Lent— Jesus Before Pilate.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 25: Saturday after the Third Sunday in Lent — Judas’s Repentance.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 24: Friday after the Third Sunday in Lent — Jesus is Dragged Before Pilate.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 23: Thursday after the Third Sunday in Lent— Jesus in the Guard-room of Caiphas.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 22: Wednesday after the Third Sunday in Lent— St. Peter’s Repentance.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 21: Tuesday after the Third Sunday in Lent — St. Peter’s Denial of Jesus.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 20: Monday after the Third Sunday in Lent — The Condemnation of Christ.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 19: The Third Sunday in Lent — In the Palace of Caiphas.)
Twenty three years ago, a document from the Pope and most of Rome condemned the abuse of EHMCs ("Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion" or - illegally "Eucharistic Ministers" aka important people of future-church) , particularly their use in Masses for the reason that they confuse the faithful into seeing a parallel ministry of lay people. They warned that a Ministerial-Industrial Complex of Parallel Ordination Clouding the vision of Actual Ministry…
Now, in response to the Coronavirus, health authorities tell us to wash our hands as a means to prevent the spread of the virus. The dioceses are trying to make prudent guidelines, but some of them cannot get rid of the industry of busybody lay people. This “ministry” is precisely the Cloudy Complex of Important People who have inserted themselves into pastoral activity today. Instead of removing extra hands from the mix, some dioceses are mandating that the dirty hands of lay people willl continue distribution, and tell us that we should receive on the hand from the dirty hands of another lay person.
THERE IS A SILVER LINING... NO SIGN OF PEACE, NO DISTRIBUTION OF BOTH SPECIES OF HOLY COMMUNION see the full post and original location here on the Bellarmine Forum website!
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 18: Saturday after the Second Sunday in Lent— In the House of Annas.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 17: Friday after the Second Sunday in Lent— Jesus Led Away Captive.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 16: Thursday after the Second Sunday in Lent— The Apprehension of Jesus.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 15: Wednesday after the Second Sunday in Lent — The Betrayal of Jesus.)
This episode is an audio version of Fr. Richard Clarke S.J.’s Catholic Daily lent meditations appearing on Bellarmine Forum (click to go to the original: Lent Day 14: Tuesday after the Second Sunday in Lent — The Sequel of the Sacred Agony.)